Regular Degular Redux - 2019-20 NBA Season thread 2

i watched some of "The Basketball Tournament: TBT" yesterday lol

its definitely all extremely sketchy and feelbad even if it works. i don't really want to watch anymore, wish they had just focused on figuring out next season instead but now we're probably gonna get 2 weird asterisk seasons instead of 1

yeah I could hardly be any less enthused for this

The fact that the entire rest of the season is going to take place at fucking Disney World is some real shit

Anyway, I am completely pumped for some reason! Ha

gonna save my energy till a week before games start and then do a deep dive into my soul to see how i REALLY FEEL then

i'm excited, mostly because this seems much more likely to go well than the 20/21 season does. i understand not being excited but i don't think it's particularly sketchy. making everyone go to their home markets first isn't looking amazing but i don't really blame the nba for that.

its def gonna be weird and likely disastrous but im gonna tell you what fellas, im gonna watch some hoops

my thoughts exactly

I too will watch the hoop no doubt about it. I didn’t think it was gonna happen until players started showing up this week. I’m still not 100% convinced.

taurean prince out.
tenth anniversary of the decision today btw.

its definitely all extremely sketchy and feelbad even if it works. i don't really want to watch anymore, wish they had just focused on figuring out next season instead but now we're probably gonna get 2 weird asterisk seasons instead of 1

I would not tell anyone they shouldn't feel this way, but I think the "choice" is really between 1 weird asterisk season and 0 seasons, because if they don't complete this season, next season may be even worse/more difficult due to which way the numbers are going and the refusal of some states to get their shit together.

oh I'm gonna watch some of it too
don't care about asterisk seasons. I follow NBA to watch best players in the world play, not so evidence can be gathered for some sportsgeek lists or debates down the line.

wasn't the 0 season option going to fuck up a ton of contract stuff for next season?

it would have nullified the entire CBA

yeah, so canceling this year to "focus on figuring out next season instead" would have brought additional issues

cad can correct me, but I think the issue was not with canceling this season but with canceling next season entirely.

My only point is that canceling this season in no way helps next season to happen as that will be dictated by how we are doing with the virus then.

And I say this with zero animus toward anyone who says shut it all down until we have a vaccine.

ok i didn't realize that. is the cba nullification tied to a certain # of games being played or what?

iirc if the players had elected not to play this season, the owners would have triggered the force majeure clause in the CBA and essentially ripped up the entire document. i don't think it's related to a # of games but is more generic to cover major catastrophic events.

finishing out this season will help with issues related to next season at least as far as the CBA is concerned. there will probably need to be some adjustments to the way the cap is calculated but i think anyone speculating about what those are is way ahead of themselves.

Ok, I'm wrong:

https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/nba-coronavirus-silver-cba-season-cancelled

Looks like the NBA CBA has a force majeure clause where the owners can cancel if games are suspended for more than 60 days. They've basically been kicking the can down the road.

xp

https://fansided.com/2020/07/09/whiteboard-brooklyn-nets-ready-revel-chaos-jamal-crawford-michael-beasley/

They should just replace the Nets with the Pelicans in the playoffs and tell all the other bubble teams not to come. It would be safer and it's what everyone wants (including the Nets).

wojpology : /

i didn't know woj was part of the resistance lol

You gotta apologize, you know that going in. But it’s still cool

Haha glad to know Woj is one of the good ones

OTM

That's great.

Embiid got on the plane to go enter the bubble wearing a hazmat suit.

what will woj's penalty be? because if jemele hill had done that . . .

Woj is actually good at his job tho

whatd he do

nm i looked

Today, Woj wrote “f**k you” in response to Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, who asked why the NBA hasn’t approved slogans and law enforcement

Twitter went OFF: https://t.co/rlyDjlyQ3P

pic.twitter.com/nAPMOuTW1g

— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) July 10, 2020

tweeting fuck u at politicians is one of twitters primary functions

It was email sent from espn account

oh ha

Rockets guard Russell Westbrook says he has tested positive for coronavirus and is in quarantine.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 13, 2020

xp that twerp had to tattle on Woj for anyone to know about it

russ got da vid

Seeing rumors that Harden does, too.

james got da vid (rumor)

Kings center Richaun Holmes crossed the the Disney campus line to pick up delivery food and must quarantine for 10 days (eight days remaining).

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 13, 2020

woj would never have said "pick up delivery food"

the concept of takeout is beyond Shams

i see this is going well so far

what food was it tho, we need to decide for ourselves if this is acceptable

that's what I want to know. They could do advertising off it: "Burst Your Bubble", etc

Not having a food delivery setup in the bubble seems like a huge blunder

44 players have tested positive since June 24th

Is that 44 players who all play for the 22 teams in the bubble? Or is that across the entire nba?

I don’t think the nba has clarified that. Also it’s 2 more now, 2 have tested positive within the bubble